artemisery
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2024
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hello everyone,
earlier today my nas randomly decided to wipe one of its vdevs. I dont know why, but that isnt the point of this post. people have been trying to help me find a solution, but unfortunately I fear I must accept the bad news and start rebuilding from a back up. this is going to take me several days, as my back up drives are not organized. normally i put a file on my back up drive, from there i copy it to a sorting folder on my server and over time I sort and rename all the files on the server as needed. this is not the best system, but it allows to have an reliable back up while procrastinating repeatedly, so there is that lol.
anyway I want to find out if snapshots can help prevent me from having to do a multi-day restoration from back up if this happens again in the future. so any resources or general information you have on snapshots would be really appreciated. thank you for the help.
earlier today my nas randomly decided to wipe one of its vdevs. I dont know why, but that isnt the point of this post. people have been trying to help me find a solution, but unfortunately I fear I must accept the bad news and start rebuilding from a back up. this is going to take me several days, as my back up drives are not organized. normally i put a file on my back up drive, from there i copy it to a sorting folder on my server and over time I sort and rename all the files on the server as needed. this is not the best system, but it allows to have an reliable back up while procrastinating repeatedly, so there is that lol.
anyway I want to find out if snapshots can help prevent me from having to do a multi-day restoration from back up if this happens again in the future. so any resources or general information you have on snapshots would be really appreciated. thank you for the help.